Potty Cap

ABSTRACT

The Potty Cap is a female urinal designed to be hands free and reduced spillage. The Advantages are: its Hands free; it&#39;s easy to apply and remove; can be used multiple times without emptying at each use; portable for individuals to carry; eliminates the need of a bedside commode. The Target audience is women over the age of 75, or women with functional impairments, women who need the device for the car when getting to the restroom is difficult.

BACKGROUND OF INVENTION

Part of my responsibility working in skilled nursing facilities was supervising the restorative techs and screening all the patients in the facility. This gave me the opportunity to see what level of assistance was needed for patients to perform activities of daily living.

If you are a female and are not able to walk to the bathroom or be able to transfer from your bed or wheelchair to the toilet or bedside commode one of your only options is the bedpan. From observation and experience, it is difficult to try to urinate on your back when your entire life you have done this in the seated position. The bed pan must be put up under you exactly right to reduce the potential of spillage. It is uncomfortable and for many women decreases their desire to drink water realizing how it will be release.

Realizing that women needed a more convenient and comfortable means to urinate. The Potty Cap was invented.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF INVENTION

The Potty Cap is a female urinal designed to be hands free and reduced spillage. This urinal will assist females that are unable to, Walk safely to and from the bathroom; unable to transfer from bed to commode chair or require immediate release of urine in a seated position. The person must be able to sit upright and maintain balance. The device can be used with the assistance of another person if the person has impairments in their hands.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1—Illustrates the top view of the Potty Cap

FIG. 2—Illustrates the bottom view of the Potty Cap

FIG. 3—Illustrates the top view of the Potty Cap

FIG. 4—Illustrates the top view of the Potty Cap with the dimensions and measurements

FIG. 5—Illustrates the front view of the Potty Cap with the dimensions and measurements

FIG. 6—Illustrates the side view of the Potty Cap with the dimensions and measurements

FIG. 7—Illustrates the rear view of the Potty Cap with the dimensions and measurements

FIG. 8—Illustrates the what the Potty Cap would look like if cut down the center

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The device is made up of one plastic piece with the use of an ice bag (already manufactured,) to hold the urine. The Potty Cap lid will then be twisted onto the ice bag.

The Potty Cap is different from other female urinals in that: Other urinals have to be held the entire time urination takes place. Other urinals have easier potential to spill over. The bag attached to the Potty Cap, hides and helps dispose the urine versus the hard plastic urinal used in institutions or in the home setting when you are relying on others to remove. It reduces the need of a bedpan for urination if the patient is able to sit upright at bedside. It can be used in the wheelchair, car seat, where ever a person is able to sit upright and reduce the need to transfer from a wheelchair to commode to urinate. This will allow many women who would like to leave their homes and are transported in wheelchairs to be able to go into the public toileting areas and use this device without asking or needing assistance to transfer onto the commode for urination purposes.

How it is Used:

-   -   The person is in a seated or semi reclined position and slides         or places the device (lid and bag) between the thighs.     -   The person checks to see if the groove or the cap is directly         underneath with their legs in an abducted position (spreaded         out).     -   The person urinates into the base of the cap which flows into         the center and into the bag.     -   Remove it by gently pulling out with a small handle on the         circular portion of the cap.     -   Twist off the bag and empty. Clean both pieces with a mild         disinfectant and it is ready to be used again.

The Making of the Invention:

The lid is made of plastic with the following diameters:

-   -   The bill or visor is curved with the height around the edges         approximately ⅝-¾.     -   The width across is approximately 6 inches across and the length         approximately 9 to 9.5 inches from the visor to the edge of the         bowl that the urine flows into.     -   The center of the visor will form a groove starting at 1 inch         from the edge that will be approximately 2 inches in width to         allow the fluid to flow forward into the base.     -   The fluid will flow into the center of the base with the hole         being approximately the size of a penny or dime and will narrow         into a funnel type center to reduce spillage when placed down.     -   The fluid will pass through the funnel into the ice bag.     -   The ice bag has the capacity of holding up to 64 oz of fluid.

Materials

The lid and base are made out of the same material which is a smooth plastic with rounded edges. The center has threads which allows the lid to be twisted on the ice bag which is made of latex like material. 

1. What is claimed is: one plastic smoothed edged device with one end curved like a baseball cap with a hole that funnels down for which the liquid to flow into an ice bag.
 2. What is claimed is a plastic lid with smooth edges, with one end which is curved like a baseball cap and a rectangle grip at the other end that allows for at least four fingers to be inserted into the grip to securely insert the urinal under a female's bottom, and once inserted, the handle grip is released providing for use of the urinal hands free.
 3. What is claimed is a rectangle grip, which allows for an easy method to pull the urinal out.
 4. What is claimed is a plastic lid with smooth edges that has the ability to be twisted onto a plastic bottle. 